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James Norton as Alex Godman in "McMafia" (AMC/Nick Wall)

AMC’s “McMafia”: From Russia, with reservations

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Anna Deavere Smith in "Notes from the Field" (Courtesy of HBO)

Anna Deavere Smith on “Notes from the Field”: “I see this as a mating call”

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Fred Rogers (AP/Gene J. Puskar/Mark Wallheiser)

Fred Rogers, champion of gentle masculinity, has a cure for the gun violence that plagues us

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Oprah Winfrey (AP/Jordan Strauss)

Why Oprah offends Trump to his very (dark) soul

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Jimmy Fallon (AP/Rich Fury)

Why we still can’t stomach Jimmy Fallon

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"The Trade" - Matthew Heineman (Getty/Kevork Djansezian/Showtime/Our Time Projects)

Up close and personal with Matthew Heineman, director of “The Trade”

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Spelman College class, 1898. (Courtesy of Spelman College)

“Tell Them We Are Rising”: An education in resilience

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"One Day At A Time;" "This Is Us;" "The Good Place" (Netflix/NBC)

Television takes on death and magical thinking

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Jeffrey Tambor (AP/Richard Shotwell)

It’s official: Jeffrey Tambor is no longer part of “Transparent”

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Jahi Di'Allo Winston and Peyton Kennedy in "Everything Sucks!" (Netflix/Scott Patrick Green)

“Everything Sucks”: Another feat of Netflix engineering

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Marvin "Krondon" Jones III as Tobias in "Black Lightning" (CW/Richard Ducree)

“Black Lightning”: How Marvin Jones III makes a villain a hero

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Tim Robbins and Holly Hunter in "Here and Now" (HBO/Ali Paige Goldstein)

“Here and Now” and the unbearable whiteness of progressives

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Animated cast of "Our Cartoon President" (Courtesy Of Showtime)

“Our Cartoon President”: That joke isn’t funny anymore

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“Strike Back” brings women into the action

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Karamo Brown, Jonathan Van Ness, Tan France, Antoni Porowski, Bobby Berk on "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" (Netflix/Carin Baer)

“Queer Eye” and the view from here

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Omarosa Manigault on "Big Brother: Celebrity Edition" (CBS/Cliff Lipson)

From White House to fake house: Omarosa debuts on “Celebrity Big Brother”

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A carrying-in boy at a Virginia glass factory. He worked all night, every other week. (Museum Of The City Of New York)

“The Gilded Age” reflects upon our divisions then, and now

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Milo Ventimiglia and Mandy Moore in "This Is Us" (NBC Universal Media)

This week on “This Is Us”: It’s the Super Bowl of TV deaths!

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J. K. Simmons as Howard Silk in "Counterpart" (Starz/Nicole Wilder)

The Multiple Lives of J.K. Simmons

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A scene from "The Trade" (Our Time Projects/Courtesy Of Showtime)

“The Trade” and the many faces of our opioid crisis

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Joel Kinnaman in "Altered Carbon" (Netflix)

“Altered Carbon”: Same bleak future, different title

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Jessica Williams and Phoebe Robinson in "2 Dope Queens" (HBO/Mindy Tucker)

“It feels like the future of comedy and entertainment”: The magic of “2 Dope Queens”

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Nas, on stage at the Kennedy Center (13th Witness)

“Great Performances” gives us Nas’ Illmatic, orchestrated

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Rose McGowan participates in the "Citizen Rose" panel during the NBCUniversal 2018 Winter Television Critics Association Press Tour (Getty/Frederick M. Brown)

Fractured feminism and “Citizen Rose”

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